111860 - Selecting preferred search engine in Preferences screen has no effect on Search button: browser always uses Netscape

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 60283

(SeaMonkey :: Search, defect)

Description

[Simon Harvey]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120
BuildID:    2001112009

It is impossible to set any search engine other than Netscape as the preferred
search site in Preferences: the change of setting appears to have been accepted
each time, but has no effect, even after closedown/restart. (All of this is true
also of NS6.2.)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Edit / Preferences / Navigator / Internet search
2. Change the setting to Google or dmoz or anything that is not Netscape.
3. Click [OK] and click Search button. It uses Netscape.
4. Check setting in Preferences. It's still what you set it to. Close the browser.
5. Reboot the browser. Check the Preferences setting. It's OK. Click the Search
button. It calls up Netscape.

Actual Results:  The Search button gives Netscape irrespective of Internet
search setting in Preferences / Navigator.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of "Search Button ignores prefs (goes to netscape if URL bar contains
URL of current page)"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 60283 ***

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying Duplicate bugs which haven't changed since 2001.12.31.

set your search string in mail to "CitizenGKar" to filter out these messages.